Mac and Cheese

Only had 5 girls show up last night, and 3 of them were mine. But that's OK, my older girls know how to make a rue and cheese sauce so the younger girls were able to do it all. It tasted yummy. In real life, I don't follow a recipe very closely, might not be the best method to teach girls how to cook, if they don't know how to follow a recipe. I'll have to work on that.

Making a Rue.

If you can make a rue you can make lots of things, white sauce, "Cream of" sauces, (no more canned soups) Cheese sauce, gravy-both white/milk and brown,

and cheese soup just to name a few.

Macaroni boiling

Getting the lumps out. A whisk, in this case a balloon whisk, is the best

tool for the job.

Cooking in the Spring

We have been working on cooking skills, we have made deviled eggs, egg in a hole, french toast, & 2 different jello salads.

We will continue cooking skills the spring. Some of the items we will be making are Rice Crispy Treats, Macaroni and Cheese, Potato Salad, Spaghetti with meat sauce, and Potato Corn Chowder.

We will also be working on meal etiquette, setting a table, serving food, and table manners.

We will also be learning about Prayer.

We will be meeting on the following dates:

April 12- Mac and Cheese

April 26- Potato Salad

May 10- Spaghetti with meat sauce

May 24- Potato Corn Chowder

Playing Catch Up

We had our award presentation at the annual Ladies Tea.

Over the summer we attempted to play volleyball, but we all were really bad. We did learn the basics of how to play, bumping and serving.We started a unit on Kindness also during the summer.

We had a slumber party at the beginning of September.

This fall we are continuing Kindness, by going through Mean Girls, by Hayley DiMarco

We started Personal Journal. We spent that meeting decorating our journals.

In October and November we made deviled eggs, and jello salads. The girls had to bring something to the church Thanksgiving Potluck.

Tonight we are going to make gifts in a jar. They can either make Bath Salts, Brownie mix, or both.

December we will meet just one time for our Christmas party. Instead of a gift exchange each girls is asked to bring 1 1/5 yards of fleece. We will be making fleece blankets as a mission project.